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There has been a change to the catering arrangements offered by the RBGE and registration for this meeting is no longer appropriate. Those attending the meeting will have access to the staff catering facilities on the site but will have to pay for food themselves. Therefore, THERE IS NO REQUIREMENT TO REGISTER and those who have registered will have the registration fee refunded. If anyone has decided to attend but has not registered, it would be helpful to let me know by e-mail to [log in to unmask] - meeting details below. Ron Smith Secretary ESSG ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RSS/Environmental Statistics Study Group meeting Ordination Techniques in Environmental Science Thursday October 9, 2003, 10:30 Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh Meeting ends 4:00pm Major advances have been made in the last 15 years in the theory and application of ordination techniques in environmental biology. Speakers: John Birks (Botanical Institute, University of Bergen) will review progress in several areas, including canonical or constrained techniques for multivariate direct gradient analysis and statistical analysis of multivariate data, and discuss some of the pitfalls that can arise in the interpretation of ordination results. Robin Pakeman (Macauley Institute, Aberdeen) will then present some case studies in the use of ordination techniques showing the value of these approaches in plant ecology studies. James Currall (Information Service, University of Glasgow) will consider the application of ordination techniques to a data set with comparisons to alternative statisitical analyses. More information on the envstat web-page (link below). Posted by: Howard Grubb ([log in to unmask]) _____________________________________________________________________ Homepage for envstat list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/envstat _____________________________________________________________________ Homepage for envstat list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/envstat